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title: For even the eagle saw the beauty of giving: and he flew away hungry… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: For even the eagle saw the beauty of giving: and he flew away hungry to his mountains, and neither was the King really hurt, nor the dove without a home. Who acts: beauty, miracle, neither, King. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Op
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 141

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For even the eagle saw the beauty of giving: and he flew away hungry to his mountains, and neither was the King really hurt, nor the dove without a home.

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**Who acts:** beauty, miracle, neither, King · **What happens:** see, give, fly away, be, hurt · **To what, where:** beauty, King, dove

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This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty, miracle, neither, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg69647:2:141
# text = For even the eagle saw the beauty of giving: and he flew away hungry to his mountains, and neither was the King really hurt, nor the dove without a home.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	really	really	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	without	without	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past |  | the beauty |  |  |  | for the eagle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | the beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fly away** | past | miracle |  |  |  |  | away, hungry *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | neither | the King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hurt** | past | the King | the dove |  |  |  | without a home | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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